Surgical suture. Surgical suture is a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery. Application generally involves using a needle with an attached length of thread. A number of different shapes, sizes, and thread materials have been developed over its millennia of history.
Parentheses or round brackets, denoted by '( )', is generally used to define the different precedence of numbers in a mathematical expression. Box brackets or square brackets: Apart from mathematical expression, '[ ]' square brackets are also used to represent the numbers in interval.
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